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This video in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos is proof of how rabbits eat the crops in the Urgell region, where they have become a problem.
For the farmers of the lands of Lleida, the rabbit can become a lifeless problem, a headache, given the problems it is causing them in the fields.
So much so that last year the Generalitat began a pilot test with a vertical network located in the affected agricultural properties to try to put an end to the rabbit plague that affects several parts of the Lleida regions.
It is a system that works with the extension of a net that is automatically lowered at night while the rabbits go out and, when they want to return to the burrows, they are trapped.
The test is one of the measures demanded by the so-called Rabbit Table and was carried out around the Ivars and Vila-sana pond, in Pla d’Urgell.
The farmers demand that the Generalitat be able to use night nets and be able to hunt at night while what they consider a rabbit plague lasts.
Animal activists attribute the increase in the number of rabbits to “the disappearance of natural predators (mainly birds of prey, foxes and wolves; the latter are highly valuable pieces for hunting); concentration of food (crop fields encourage their reproduction by facilitating access to almost unlimited food); changes in agricultural management (elimination of hedges and bushes that provide shelter);
